r-markdown: German quotation marks for pdf_documents

Question

I coudln\'t find out how to use the \"lang: de\" option (link) properly. That is, while tables are correctly named \"Tabelle\", the following settings:

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Answer 1

Following Tobi we can define language and use latex package csquotes.

---
title: "German quotation marks"
author: "will"
date: "24 Jänner 2018"
output: pdf_document
lang: de
header-includes:
  - \usepackage{csquotes}
---

"Das ist sehr schön", sagte sie. 

Yields: